title: Economic linkages to changing landscapes.
abstract: Many economic processes are intertwined with landscape change. A large number of individual economic decisions shape the landscape, and in turn the changes in the landscape shape economic decisions. This article describes key research questions about the economics of landscape change and reviews the state of research knowledge. The rich and varied economic-landscape interactions are an active area of research by economists, geographers, and others. Because the interactions are numerous and complex, disentangling the causal relationships in any given landscape system is a formidable research challenge. Limited data with mismatched temporal and spatial scales present further obstacles. Nevertheless, the growing body of economic research on these topics is advancing and shares fundamental challenges, as well as data and methods, with work in other disciplines.
authors.affiliation: Department of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State University, 342 Waters Hall, Manhattan, KS, 66506-4011, USA, jpeters@ksu.edu.
authors.forename: Jeffrey M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Peterson
authors.forename: Marcellus M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Caldas
authors.forename: Jason S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Bergtold
authors.forename: Belinda S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Sturm
authors.forename: Russell W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Graves
authors.forename: Dietrich
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Earnhart
authors.forename: Eric A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Hanley
authors.forename: J Christopher
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture / Q000191:economics; D002980:Climate; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D003657:Decision Making; D004467:Economics; D017753:Ecosystem; D004777:Environment; D005246:Feedback; D006802:Human Activities; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States; D014881:Water Supply